[SOLVED] Tearless compositing.

Hi

My problem is not a problem in particular. I just want to ask the masses if they have the same experiences as i do.

So. For me using Awesome WM it seems impossible to have both, compositing and videos without tearing. I've tried with different compositing managers and even without one, but the only thing solving the issue is disabling composite for Xort.

Is there anyone using Awesome WM with activated compositioning, who can watch videos without tearing? If yes: Which graphics card is used?

Window Managers which do not suffer from tearing seem to be:- Compiz- Gnome3- Others?

ps. Any suggestions for solving this for Nvidia cards are much appreciated.

Re: [SOLVED] Tearless compositing.

Yeah... Same goes for Openbox/Fluxbox, Xfce, E17, etc. They all have tearing during videos, because Xorg has this limitation. Well, actually XRendr does (or was it "XRandR"? I forget). Wayland doesn't have this limitation, but a lot of applications don't support Wayland (yet).

Basically, with Xorg, you need an OpenGL WM, and "Gnome3" is not a WM; you probably mean Mutter. There's also KWin (KDE).

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Re: [SOLVED] Tearless compositing.

The funny part about this thread -- when I read the title, I thought 'tearless' meant how to do it without crying

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Re: [SOLVED] Tearless compositing.

compton(-git) works amazingly well! Just got the glx backend working just as fast as xrender with latest git, with absolultely no tearing!Even if the opengl backend isn't working for you, you can make it almost tear-free with --vsync drm.

here are my settings for reference. I think --glx-no-stencil and --glx-no-rebind-pixmap were the crucial settings for me (using open source radeon driver)

Re: [SOLVED] Tearless compositing.

Onion comes out of the box for almost all linux distros. And only few projects, like compiz and compton (maybe there are some more, like infinality, but it's the matter of taste...) seem to replace it with potatoes

Re: [SOLVED] Tearless compositing.

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Re: [SOLVED] Tearless compositing.

There is an option for Kwin to disable desktop effects on fullscreen applications but it can be problematic and doesn't always work. I always just disabled compositing effects before I load up said program to be safer. According to the compton manual --unredir-if-possible may cause flickering. I'm curious to try this out and see how it goes

@z1lt0idAs for compton --unredir-if-possible, it works too, and you'll get a flick everytime you go from unredirect to redirect, (eg: when you popup a menu while in fullscreen) --paint-on-overlay, makes the flickering less evident.